Earlier yesterday, a group of armed Maoists shot dead a villager of Sanyasiguda in Malkangiri district. The Maoists came to Sanyasiguda village of Andrapalli panchayat in Chitrakonda block in the early morning hours with Nanda Golari whom they had kept as hostage for two days. Later, they shot him dead in front of his house and fled the area.

On December 27, the Red Rebels had brutally killed Rabi Pujari of Chandanpur village under Kudumulgumma block by beating him to death.